Villanueva said Wednesday that the change to the department’s longstanding practice of requiring deputies to wear tags engraved with their last names on their uniform shirts was in response to recent incidents in which deputies were harassed and had personal information revealed by protesters.
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My old town of Modesto used to hold a week long celebration ending with a cruise to celebrate the movie American Graffiti which was set in that town. On Graffiti Night during the cruise a couple decades ago, the cops would either take off their name tags or switch with other cops, then beat the shit out of anybody that caused a disturbance or even just backtalked them. That practice went on for years.
